Abstract

Attitudes towards entrepreneurship.
Topics: preferred employment status: employed, self-employed; reasons for preferred employment status; preference to work for selected kinds of companies: family business, not family owned business; reasons for preference to work in family business; reasons for preference to work in not family owned business; feasibility to become self-employed within the next five years; reasons for non-feasibility; desire to become self-employed within the next five years; participation in courses about entrepreneurship; attitude towards the following statements on personal school education with regard to entrepreneurship: helpful to develop entrepreneurial attitude, helpful to understand role of entrepreneurs in society, made interested in becoming entrepreneur, has given essential skills; attitude towards selected statements on entrepreneurs: create benefit for society, only think of themselves, are job creators, take advantage of other people’s work; activities in starting a business; considerations with regard to starting a business; current situation in own business; importance of each of the following issues in the decision to start a business: dissatisfaction with previous job situation, appropriate business idea, contact with appropriate business partner, getting necessary financial resources, role model, addressing special needs; reasons for starting own business; preference to set up new business or to take over existing one; most important risks for setting up a business; attitude towards selected groups of people: entrepreneurs, top managers, professions; use of an assumed heritage; importance of each of the following issues with regard to starting a business: lack of financial support, complex administrative procedures, find information on how to start a business, risk of failure, possibility to have a second chance; main sources of income; type of own business: started from scratch, take over from other owner, family business.
Demography: age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; parents’ occupation; satisfaction with household income; region; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size.
Additionally coded was: respondent ID; type of phone line; country; weighting factor.

Temporal Coverage

2012-06-15
/ 2012-08-08

total

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Belgium

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Bulgaria

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Czech Republic

2012-06-25
/ 2012-06-28

Denmark

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Germany

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Estonia

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Greece

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Spain

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

France

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Ireland

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Italy

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Republic of Cyprus

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Latvia

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Lithuania

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Luxembourg

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Hungary

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Malta

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Netherlands

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Austria

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Poland

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Portugal

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Romania

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Slovenia

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Slovakia

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Finland

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Sweden

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

United Kingdom

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Croatia

2012-06-26
/ 2012-07-04

Turkey

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-28

Iceland

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-29

Norway

2012-06-26
/ 2012-06-30

Switzerland

2012-06-26
/ 2012-07-04

Israel

2012-07-02
/ 2012-07-05

Russia

2012-06-15
/ 2012-07-12

United States

2012-07-04
/ 2012-08-08

Brazil

2012-07-02
/ 2012-07-26

India

2012-06-27
/ 2012-07-23

China

2012-06-27
/ 2012-07-20

South Korea

2012-07-02
/ 2012-07-24

Japan

Geographic Coverage

Belgium (BE)

Denmark (DK)

Germany (DE)

Greece (GR)

Spain (ES)

Finland (FI)

France (FR)

Ireland (IE)

Italy (IT)

Luxembourg (LU)

Netherlands (NL)

Austria (AT)

Portugal (PT)

Sweden (SE)

United Kingdom (GB)

Bulgaria (BG)

Cyprus (CY)

Czech Republic (CZ)

Estonia (EE)

Hungary (HU)

Latvia (LV)

Lithuania (LT)

Malta (MT)

Poland (PL)

Romania (RO)

Slovakia (SK)

Slovenia (SI)

Turkey (TR)

Iceland (IS)

Croatia (HR)

Russian Federation (RU)

Switzerland (CH)

Norway (NO)

Brazil (BR)

Japan (JP)

United States (US)

China (CN)

Beijing, Shanghai and eight province capitals

India (IN)

National Capital Territory, four state capitals and one state metropolis (largest city)

Beijing (CN-11)

Shanghai (CN-31)

Delhi (IN-DL)

Korea, Republic of (KR)

Sampled Universe

Population of the respective nationalities of the European Union Member States, resident in each of the 27 Member States and aged 15 years and over. The survey has also been conducted in Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil and the United States.

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Alternative Identifiers

ZA5789 (Type: ZA-No.)

Internationale Umfrageprogramme (Type: FDZ)

Publications

European Commission; TNS Political & Social:
Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond.
Brussels: European Commission July 2012
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_354_en.pdf